You're right on track. Clipper PRGs needs to be compiled and linked before changes be noticed. The only Clipper version with some kind of development enviroment I know, as far as I remember, was CA-Clipper 5.3. It was a Clipper version intended to introduce the programmer to the windows development but it worked on DOS though.

Enmanuel

>hi
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>i've just been drafted in to take on a clipper 5.2e project. thing is, i've never used it before but thought i could give it a go bearing in mind my foxpro knowledge.
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>now that i'm here there doesn't seem to be a development environment! does anyone know if this is normal? all the prgs are in a directory and it's been been explained to me that to create the EXE we just run clipper followed by a linker. does this sound right?
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>if so, are there any development envs that i can use because i'm not used to compiling and linking an EXE every time i want to try out a small change, or just to see what a command does!
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>thanks for any insights...